Simple weapon mastery
Copyright © 2016 Luigi Castellani
A Basic Fantasy RPG Supplement
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INTRODUCTION
This supplement provides rules for a simple weapon mastery system to boost your fighter characters in the Basic Fantasy
RPG.
This system is thought for fighters only, fighter sub-classes
already receive their own special benefits, as characters of
other classes do.
Simple weapon mastery
When a fighter reaches 6th level, all weapon damage
gets a dice step boost: a dagger, doing 1d4 damage, now
inflicts 1d6 when wielded by a fighter. In the same way a
longbow would now inflict 1d10.
This increase in damage also applied to unarmed combat
forms, a punch or a wrestling hold would now inflict 1d4
subdual damage for example.
The progression is:
1>1d2>1d3>1d4>1d6>1d8>1d10>1d12>2d8>3d6
Any weapon inflicting multiple dice of damage receives an
additional damage dice instead.
When a fighter becomes 9th level, he now can execute
one additional attack per round with any kind of weapon
he is wielding, including unarmed combat forms.
Crossbows and other personal weapons that allow for less
than one attack per round can now be used faster,
reducing by 1 the number of rounds required to reload.
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This means that a light crossbow can now be fired once
per round, while a heavy crossbow can be fired once
every two rounds.
A 9th or higher level attacker can thus attempt to wrestle
an enemy twice in a round, but if a hold is achieved with
the first attack the second attack in that round can only be
employed to move the target, inflict more wrestling
damage or acquire an object from it (see the wrestling
rules in the BFRPG rulebook for more details).
When a fighter reaches 12th level, he is so skilled in
combat he breaks initiative ties. The fighter acts before
any other character he's tied initiative with, excluding any
other 12th or higher level fighter.
A note on siege weapons
None of the above abilities can be used by a fighter to
improve the efficiency of siege weapons unless all the
crew activating the weapon is composed of fighters of the
appropriate level.
For example it takes a crew of three 6 th level fighters to
improve the damage output of a Ballista, which would
then inflict 3d8 damage points.
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